Sorry I can’t help with additional info, as you said there’s little to find. It’s referenced on DW at least, but not much more is given there

A bloody discord FFS, I’m not going there.

But then I guess it’s not open source, if we can’t find the source.

I don’t see myself installing a distro for which you can’t even find the license? How do you even know you have the right to install or use it?

Bold move.

M’computer

How nice of them. I hope I can pay for this feature!

I work for the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, and I think I talk for everyone when I say: yes, why not

If one single line of code can make you lose $60M, surely you’ll ensure due review processes and independent QA and clear requirements and regular audits and a middle management not only doing KPI monitoring for a failing upper management. Right? Rrrright?

Aaaaaah it’s gaming! Oh dear, I feel old. OK, so Arch gets the compiled drivers for gaming related HW before other distros? I guess, given the community of nerds (no offense), that would make sense. Thanks for clearing that up.

Still wouldn’t be ahead of the compilable distros. I urge you to switch to LFS, the real beginners distros. ;)

You’re doing god’s work, well done

Yeah, I’m not sure supporting MS proprietary 3D rendering APIs is the goal of any Linux distro? It’s like saying: look my distro is ahead because excel runs on it. I might be missing the point here. If you can have the same reasoning with Vulkan, that would make sense tho

I find it a bit weird to try to make gentoo more ‘user-friendly’. It kind of defeats the point… I have to try tho before being able to answer

Arch is several months ahead of other distros

Source for that? It’s one of those weird, wild affirmations that go around regarding Arch. Ahead in terms of what? Integrating the most up-to-date kernel or something?

Is it because of the rolling release model? But it’s not the only one to have rolling releases.

Not yet, thanks for bringing it!

you’re gonna end up on the arch wiki anyway regardless of distro, so you may as well go to the source.

Absolutely not. I’ve never used a distro that required me to check the forums or wiki of another distro.

it’s bleeding edge

What now? I feel I have fallen asleep and just woke up at a marketing meeting at my job.

For very specific uses, it can be useful. Some scientific SW, niche applications, or if you have older HW. Most of the time, it’s a flex now (I use gentoo BTW, what about that?)

Absolutely, it used to be important, now it’s more of a hobby for me…

Yet, for some people who love to have everything under control, Arch is a step below the fully optimisable distros. That’s why I think it’s maybe not for the ultimate Linux extremists among us :) Although there is definitely some respect to give to people who completely mod Mint or Ubuntu, they’re among the bravest

Compared to gentoo for instance, packages are not compiled depending on the HW they are installed on. So, not enough resource optimisation and customisation for some users

Of course, any distro is customisable if you spend the time to do it voluntarily, but by default it’s not the way it works

Yes, I find this obsession with Arch on Lemmy very weird. It’s certainly not a distro for beginners. Ubuntu (let the hate flow), Mint, Fedora, and many others would be better choices.

If it is what you like, fair enough but I feel that it is encouraged around here as a default for both beginners and advanced users, which is bizarre. It’s too complex for beginners and not optimisable enough for very advanced users. I don’t hate it but I hate to see it become the standard.

Saving this for later when a need to get massive levels of frustration, so massive that I will be punching my screen, arises. (Can’t wait!)

Isn’t this the principle of happy hours? I guess “algorithm-enforced beverage price dissymmetry” is a bit more ominous than “happy hour”

"Yes your Honour, I knew it was a pyramid scheme. But I never thought I would be the last buyer. I always thought there would be another dumbass to buy it from me at a higher price, otherwise I wouldn’t have bought it in the first place. I’m not stupid, unlike those last buyers!

Moreover, your Honour, on a technical note, this is not a monkey. You see, a monkey is different from a monke, and both…"